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The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
The Rockefeller Foundation provided a $7,500 grant in 1956 for The Dartmouth Workshop, where the term 'artificial intelligence' was first coined by four mathematicians. This investment is considered the first in AI history, predating modern AI fundraising by decades.
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